World News Australia http://www.admin.sbs.com.au/worldnews/ Two huge bombs exploded just outside Baghdad's tightly-guarded Green Zone as US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte was due to address reporters inside. http://www.admin.sbs.com.au/worldnews/bombings_target_baghdad_green_zone__559341 A former high-level Taliban official said that he met in Saudi Arabia with representatives of the Taliban, the Afghan government and a powerful Afghan warlord. http://www.admin.sbs.com.au/worldnews/taliban_and_afghan_officials_break_bread_559298 Hamas will no longer recognise Mahmoud Abbas as Palestinian president after January 8 and will then fill the post with one of its leaders. http://www.admin.sbs.com.au/worldnews/term_ends_in_january_for_president_abbas_559294 Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced the dismantling of a "terrorist cell" which he said was linked to Israeli intelligence services. http://www.admin.sbs.com.au/worldnews/yemen_says_terrorist_cell_dismantled_559267 The rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) claims it has the bodies of two Turkish soldiers killed in a raid last week in south-eastern Turkey near the border with Iraq. http://www.admin.sbs.com.au/worldnews/pkk_39has_bodies_of_turkish_troops39_559245 A captured Taliban commander behind bombings and kidnappings in Afghanistan's Oruzgan Province is linked to many of the group's senior leaders, the Defence Department says. http://www.admin.sbs.com.au/worldnews/captured_extremist_39had_links_to_senior_taliban_leaders39_559228 Pages from an Israeli astronaut's diary that survived the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia and a 60km fall to earth go on display this weekend for the first time in Jerusalem. http://www.admin.sbs.com.au/worldnews/astronaut39s_diary_goes_on_display_in_jerusalem__559214 Eleven people have been killed in a suicide bombing and gunbattle during a US raid on a house in the Iraqi city of Mosul Sunday, the US military says. http://www.admin.sbs.com.au/worldnews/suicide_bomber_kills_11_in_iraq_559206 The Islamic Hamas movement has rejected efforts to hold early legislative elections. http://www.admin.sbs.com.au/worldnews/hamas_rejects_early_legislative_polls_559175 Two US Blackhawk helicopters crashed in northern Baghdad's Sunni district of Adhamiyah, a US military spokesman says. http://www.admin.sbs.com.au/worldnews/two_us_blackhawks_crash_in_baghdad_559150